What happened on this day in history: Howard Carter uncovers the sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun, serial killer John Wayne Gacy murders his first victim, and more.1521: Martin Luther Is Excommunicated From The Catholic Church Pope Leo X issues the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, excommunicating Martin Luther from the Catholic Church. Three years earlier, Luther would write his 95 Theses, protesting certain practices of the Church, which the Pope deemed as heresy. Read More...
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty. Sadly, it's a war we're still fighting, and a war we've always been losing. Americans love to declare war on abstract ideas. The War on Christmas, the War on Drugs and, declared on Jan. 8, 1964, the War on Poverty. Much like these other “wars,” President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty was, by and large, a failure.
In 1964, poverty wasn’t a new problem, but it was a newly realized and newly contextualized problem after the first numbers on poverty came out in 1959. Read More...
After meeting Adolf Hitler when she was 17 years old, Eva Braun became the Nazi dictator's long-time mistress before marrying him on April 29, 1945.In 1935, Eva Braun wrote in her diary, “The weather is gorgeous, and I, the mistress of Germany’s and the world’s greatest man, have to sit at home and look at it through the window.” Braun was a 23-year-old photography assistant with a secret: She was Adolf Hitler’s mistress. Read More...
